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unichar

Print Unicode characters by name or code point

This is a very small utility that I use to insert Unicode characters into text documents in vim:

:r ! unichar bullet

There are likely other ways to do this, but it's nice to be able to call characters up by name:

:r ! unichar 'greek capital letter delta'

Notes

unichar requires a recent version of sclapp (at least bzr revision 89 from the dev branch on launchpad.net). It relies on sclapp's stdio_encoding.py for printing unicode strings.

Are You Using This Software?

If you find this software useful and you have a minute to send me an e-mail, I'd like to hear from you. It's difficult to gauge the number of users each package actually has, as server logs only tell part of the story. Knowing how many people are using the software helps me make good decisions when it comes to maintenance. Saying "thanks" makes that decision even easier. :)

Development Code

unichar utilizes a launchpad-hosted bzr repository. bzr is a distributed version-control system. To checkout the most recent development code, type this:

$ bzr branch https://launchpad.net/unichar

Ubuntu Packages

Installable packages for Ubuntu are available from my PPA (Personal Package Archive) on launchpad.

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